Test 3 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Fate of Mr. Fox: a tattling sparrow gets…

why was Brer Fox acting deaf, fr?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Brer Fox · What happens: act · To what, where: fr

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 578 «Uncle Remus, The Fate of Mr. Fox: a tattling sparrow gets eaten» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 acting	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 acting	aux
3	Brer	Brer	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Fox	compound
4	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 acting	nsubj
5	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 acting	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fr	punct
8	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 acting	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 acting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act	past · progressive	Brer Fox	fr				deaf property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

to trick the bird onto his tooth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 trick	mark
2	trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trick	obj
5	onto	onto	ADP	_	7 tooth	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tooth	nmod:poss
7	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	to-infinitive		the bird		bird's tooth			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient

Option 2

to lure the rabbit into his den

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 lure	mark
2	lure	lure	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rabbit	det
4	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lure	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 den	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 den	nmod:poss
7	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lure	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lure	to-infinitive		the rabbit				into rabbit's den result	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent rabbit=Patient into den=Result

Option 3

to fool the bird with his ears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 fool	mark
2	fool	fool	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fool	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 ears	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ears	nmod:poss
7	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fool	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fool	to-infinitive		the bird				with bird's ears	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient

Option 4

to scare the bird off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 scare	mark
2	scare	scare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scare	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	2 scare	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare off	to-infinitive		the bird					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer

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